"OI Wake up lazy bones, or were gonna miss breakfast! And I'm hungry!" Issy said shaking Lily roughly awake.
"m'up." Lily mumbled, wiping the sleep from here eyes and slowly sitting up, looking over at Issy who was already fully dressed and looking impatient to get down to the great hall.
"Come on!" Issy exclaimed pulling the covers away from the now semi-conscious Lily.
"You know I didn't miss this over the summer." Lily grumbled, throwing her legs out of the bed and picking up her uniform, before walking into the bathroom to get changed.
Lily came out of the bathroom, and placed her nightclothes on the bed, before looking at Issy who was impatiently tapping her foot and looking out of the window towards the forest.
"Finally, come on I'm starved, here's your bag." Issy threw Lily's school bag at her then pulled her down the stairs to the common room, which was now nearly empty, and all the way down to the great hall.
Entering the Great Hall Issy pulled Lilly down the table to the closest two empty seats and immediately started piling eggs and bacon on to her plate, while Lily sat there groggily looking at the food in front of her, before grabbing a slice of buttered toast, just as professor McGonagal came to hand them their time tables.
"Potions first thing. Double Potions, to make it worst." Issy cried looking at her timetable.
"Potion's isn't that bad Issy." Lily laughed looking over the rest of her timetable, not noticing three boys getting up from the table and heading towards them.
"We have double Transfiguration to end the day with! I don't know why I chose to continue that subject." Lily exclaimed taking a small bite out of her toast.
"Transfiguration isn't that bad Lils." James laughed taking a seat next to Lily and looking over her timetable.
"You have got the exact same classes as us three." James observed, still looking at the timetable.
"Are you lucky or what." Sirius laughed looking at the alarmed look on Lily's face.
"We're stuck with you three in ALL our classes. As in ALL lessons." Lily exclaimed dropping the last of her toast onto her plate.
"Yep!" Sirius said happily.
"Oh god I'm going to fail everything." Lily said eyes wide, looking at Issy for help.
"Lil it won't be that bad, well I'm sure it can't be that bad." Issy said "But we better get going or were going to be late, and I don't think Professor Slughorn will be happy if his star pupil was late." Issy laughed as Lily got to her feet and the pair of them went to walk away.
"Besides we can always just hide in the library, I doubt that James and Sirius even know where it is!" Issy said to Lily as they walked away from the table towards the entrance hall.
"Hey I do too know where the Library is!" Sirius yelled getting up from the table and catching up with Lily and Issy.
"He even knows how to use a book too." Remus laughed as James and himself caught up with the group.
"Remember Padfoot, it's one of them things with pretty pictures and words." James said as if he was talking to a child.
"OOOO and it can be used to hit people like this." Sirius grabbed a book from his bag and hit James over the head with it, before walking into the classroom and taking a seat towards the back.
"That hurt you know!" James exclaimed throwing himself into the chair next to Sirius and rubbing the back of his head and looking at Remus as he took a seat next to him.
"Morning class. Hope you all had a good summer." Professor Slughorn smiled as a murmur went around the room. "Right then for a nice start to the year, I want you all to make me a potion, which uses daisy roots." Slughorn smiled as the students started to light fires under their cauldrons.
"A potion, which uses daisy roots? Is he having a laugh?" Issy exclaimed looking at Lily for help.
"Don't look at me for help, you should know a nice simple potion to make." Lily said as a matter of fact, finally chopping up a root of some sort, before looking up at the distress on Issy's face, just as a ball of crunched up parchment came flying towards Issy.
Issy turned around, looking for the culprit and saw Sirius gesturing for Issy to open the crunched up ball of parchment. Slowly flattening out the parchment Issy could see a message.
'Should have sat with us, we would have helped you out.' Sighing Issy got her quill and wrote a note back.
'What and abandon my unhelpful friend never!'
Screwing the parchment back into a ball Issy threw it over to Sirius and looked at Lily hoping that she would give her a tiny clue, just as a ball of parchment once again hit her on the head. Once again picking up the parchment and unscrambling it Issy read the reply.
'There is nothing more important then loyalty to unhelpful friends, for that I will help you. Think of the shrinking potions.
Turning around Issy smiled thankfully towards Sirius and began flicking through her potions book for the instructions.
An hour later and Issy grabbed her bag rushing out of the classroom as fast as she could. Her potion had ended up disastrous, instead of being clear; the potion had turned a pale blue, and gave off the smell of rotten socks. The smell was still lingering slightly.
